The Bard Goes 2.0

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The Bard Goes 2.0

Who quoth that, again? Shakespeare Searched is a new engine that lets you query bits of dialogue from all of William Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The tool is a pet project from the same folks that brought you the hierarchical clustering search engine, Clusty. It's useful for finding exact quotes from Shakespeare's texts, as his characters' words are often paraphrased or misquoted.

Matthew Pegula of Clusty's parent company, Vivisimo, wrote in to tell us about Shakespeare Searched, explaining that the service provides an ad-free experience for students and teachers studying the Bard's works. "We wanted to give students a tool that they could use in conjunction with their text," Pegula says. "We also wanted teachers to be able to recommend it to students without them being bombarded with links to term paper sites like a certain other search engine."

Shakespeare Searched lets you narrow your search to specific characters and specific works. Your results are also clustered together as topics, so you can perform additional contextual searches within topics.